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Continue reading â: inet: Google Drive Storage Counts Get RealFor a long time I’ve wondered how Google Drive does it, no matter how many Google Slides I store with no matter how many images, the storage count against me is always 137 bytes or something. They only count the pointer and not the storage. I woke up this morning…
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Continue reading â: mac: Getting great Text to speechWhile there are better systems out there of course, nothing is better than free and what the Mac has isn’t bad. It is a complete pain to setup, but basically, you have to:
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Continue reading â: wp: Removing local backups with Updraft on WordPressI’ve been a faithful users of Updraft for a long time, but because I haven’t used shared hosting in a long time, the backup files have not been a problem (and don’t take much space), but Inmotion has an automatic searching tool that looks for backup files and they bang…
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Continue reading â: dev: Getting rid of Git LFSThis thing is a bit of a pain, it is very expensive on Github although they’ve lowered the price artificially, it is $5 for 50GB of Git LFS storage. As long as you keep your files less than 100MB you shouldn’t have a problem, but how do you get rid…
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Continue reading â: web: Need an A Record for SOA propagation
OK, I was too clever by half and it bit me. Basically, I have lots of different hosting providers, I’ve used Bluehost, Inmotion, Cloudways and DigitalOcean and I’ve been using A records to point to the individual hoster so I can easily switch. Last month I thought I was clever…
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Continue reading â: dev: 1Password cli only works online
Well, I’ve been having fun with developer tools for the past week, so documenting some of them before I descend (yet again!) into the depths of patent writing hell. 1Password CLI Well, 1Password is making some great improvements as they evolve from an influential end user store you passwords into…
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Continue reading â: ai: OpenWebUI Missing Mac Manual with Ollama and ComfyUI notes v1.9 2025-04-11Well, Open WebUI is an incredible project that provides a nice graphical front end for local AI development, but the documentation is lacking. You can figure some things out by looking at the documentation, but mainly it is trial and error. So here are my notes for using the various…
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tel: T-Mobile to US Mobile porting and Warp to Darkstar transfer
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Continue reading â: tel: T-Mobile to US Mobile porting and Warp to Darkstar transferWell, we are about half T-Mobile and half US Mobile now and here are some things to know. When you are porting, make sure you figure out turning off porting protection. Transferring between networks One cool thing is that you can pick Verizon (Warp), AT&T (Dark Star) and T-Mobile (Lightspeed).…
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Continue reading â: gw: Adding aliases with Google Workspace
I don’t really know why they’ve made this so incredibly hard, but if you have a startup and want to save a little cash, you can forward rich@coolstartup.com to rich@gmail.com and all your mail there arrives in Gmail and you don’t have to pay for an additional account. The setup…
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Continue reading â: cell: Transfer T-Mobile One to US Mobile Unlimited Flex
This was a hard decision, but thanks to Mike at T-Mobile, we had a nice plan which was basically $30/month with unlimited data in the US. However as T-Mobile One degraded (first we lost unlimited data roaming so it is only 2G roaming, then it was capping of bandwidth, then…
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